1000 Out-of-this-World Facts About Space

A planet can turn into a star. Mercury has ice. On Venus it rains metal. Earth isn't round. Mars is the only planet that is solely populated by robots. The volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io erupt its lava into space. Saturn has a hurricane in the shape of a hexagon. Uranus' moons are named after Shakespeare characters. Neptune has a ring like Saturn that we can't see in photographs. The Moon's real name is Luna. The oldest planet Methuselah is 12.7 billion years old. The word planet is Greek for wanderer. Asteroids can have moons. A comet's tail is about ten million kilometres long. When a Black Hole tears something apart it's called spaghettification. The Big Bang Theory's original name was The Primeval Atom. The universe is beige. No really.